Monthly Archives: February 2008

How To Keep Yourself Safe In A Foreign Country – Part Two

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Following on from Lea’s first post about Keeping Your Stuff Safe, there are a few things you can do to keep yourself safe whilst out and about.
It’s easy to become another crime statistic to be filed in a report by a jaded police officer who’s seen it all before; uninformed tourist wanders into [...]

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Marketing Your Location Independent Business Online: Part 1 Overcoming The Challenges

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This is Part 1 of a series of posts for those of you new to marketing a business online.
To those of you who’ve been marketing your business online for years, skip this post…it’s not for you! It’s also not for you if you’re aiming to make your money purely via websites or blogs [...]

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An Update On Our Location Independent Life

Photo: The Wandering Woodwards with a cheetah at the Spier Estate, South Africa
If you take a quick look over on the right there, you’ll see that Thursday’s posts are “pot luck”…sometimes there will be one, sometimes there won’t and the topic will be pot luck!
So I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you all [...]

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5 Realities of Being Location Independent That No-one Else Will Tell You

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It could be said that being location independent is one of the lifestyles that so many are striving to design for themselves – particularly since Tim Ferriss popularised the concept of “lifestyle design” and made it all seem so possible for everyone.
And yet whilst it has never seemed easier (is it easy?!?) [...]

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Writing Well On The Web: A Ticket To Ride for LIPs

 
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Joanna Young. Find out more about Joanna at the bottom of this post.
Can writing give us a ticket to ride? I think so.
I’m not location independent (yet).  But I’m confident the investment I’m making in creating and maintaining a strong written web presence will [...]

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